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Record publisher announces retirement

February 14, 2013

According to an announcement that appeared in The St Augustine Record today, the newspaper’s publisher, Ron Davidson, says that he will retire later this year; neither the exact date nor a successor was named in the article.

Davidson became the vice president of sales and marketing for Morris Publishing’s Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville in 2007. Three years later, he stepped in as publisher of the Morris-owned St Augustine Record after Derek May was “called home” to the newspaper owner’s corporate offices in Augusta, Georgia in 2010.

According to a quote attributed to Davidson in the announcement, he said “My wife and I have been planning this for some time and it’s getting near the time for me to play more golf and spend more time with the family.”

The 62-year-old Davidson and his wife, Janet, live near Jacksonville Beach; but, his hometown is Kingsport, Tennessee. They have two grown sons in Wichita, Kansas, the announcement said.